Senior IT Engineer, Astronomer
$125-165k
+ Equity component
Data orchestration platform
Open for applications
Data orchestration platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$125-165k
+ Equity component
201-500 employees
Company mission
Astronomer's mission is to help companies build, run, and observe their data pipelines through its data orchestration platform powered by Apache Airflow.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience with managing hardware, software, and related technologies
- Knowledge of IT vendor management
- Solid knowledge of best practices in IT, Systems, and SaaS Operations
- Strong documentation and user training skills
- Proven ability to manage projects and communicate effectively with cross-functional teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for driving technical projects
- Independence, and the ability to own and execute tasks and workflows
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Experience managing Windows and Intune
- Located in the Bay Area
Desirable
- 5+ years of experience in IT in an engineering or senior support role (or equivalent)
- ITIL or CompTIA certification(s)
- Experience with Okta in general and implementing Okta Workflows in particular
- Startup experience or experience at a SaaS company
- Experience in GCP, AWS, and Azure
What the job involves
- As an IT Engineer at Astronomer, you will power the technology infrastructure that makes business possible for a 300 person company in the data engineering space
- Through leveraging automation and integration tools (Okta Workflows, pre-existing and custom APIs, etc.), you will play a key role in speeding up the success of our company by shifting our IT organization from manual to automated processes
- Our IT team is still relatively small, which means you’ll have direct relationships with IT leadership to evaluate current systems and propose solutions
- You will be a key technical resource, providing advice, training, and technical support to people across the organization, in functions as diverse as sales operations, product management, and site reliability (among others)
- Strategize for, set up, and maintain integrations and workflows that automate our core business processes and build operational capacity for the business (Okta and Okta Workflows)
- Evaluate and administer applications, software, and cloud platforms in partnership with business leads
- Provide technical assistance, support, and troubleshooting in a professional and timely manner via a ticketing system for the IT helpdesk
- Document processes both for the IT department and company at large
- Creating purchase orders for IT equipment (computers, computer/home office accessories, software tools) and managing purchase process with an external hardware vendor
- Ensuring timely onboarding and offboarding of employees, working with HR and the manager to ensure employees have everything they need to perform their job responsibilities
Our take
Developing data pipelines is essential for modern businesses to stay competitive, but building them can be a slow process. Workflow management tools for data engineering pipelines such as Apache Airflow makes the development process significantly simpler, but managing it manually is still a repetitive, convoluted, and time-consuming process.
Astronomer provides a data orchestration platform called Astro powered by Apache Airflow, aiming to automate its data pipeline management processes, unify data flows, and ultimately help businesses to access the software's full potential without DevOps. The company claims that its collaborative system helps teams to build data pipelines faster, increase data availability, ensure runtime environments are reliable within cloud infrastructures, and provide a holistic overview of business data.
Whilst it is undeniable that the company faces competition from other data orchestration platforms, Astronomer has been smart to recognize the presence of inefficiencies in Apache Airflow, despite its great potential. The company is thus providing solutions to improve it not replace it, a unique perspective that shows great potential for Astronomer to disrupt the market.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Mar 2022
$213m
SERIES C
Jan 2021
$43.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $279.8m
Company benefits
- Remote friendly, work from anywhere
- If you’re in a city with an office, it’s there (and stocked with snacks) when you need it
- Co-workers in over 40 states and 15 countries around the world
- Health, dental, and vision insurance at little to no cost for individuals, and at competitive rates for your dependents
- Disability and life insurance policies in case something happens
- Unlimited vacation - we do track vacation days and actively encourage people to take it (on average, Astronomers take 20 days of vacation per year)
- Parental leave
- Laptop of your choice, and a stipend to help with your work-from-home setup
- Monthly $170 pre-tax stipend intended to cover your cellphone and WiFi bills
- Yearly internal summit for all employees
- Regular access to conferences, workshops, and meetups in the ecosystem
Company values
- Empathy - We're humans first. We seek to understand why people do what they do and believe that innovation comes from human-centric questions, discoveries, and decisions. We act with compassion and build trust by owning our impact on the people and systems around us
- Inclusion - We welcome diverse perspectives and value our differences. We're intentional about cultivating a respectful and welcoming environment with no ceiling on opportunity. Collaboration is our superpower
- Agility - We're a multi-disciplined team that’s focused on execution but nimble enough to adapt as the needs of our company, industry, and world evolve. We see change as opportunity
- Grit - We are energetic problem-solvers. We roll up our sleeves and figure it out as we go, navigating ambiguity with resilience. We’re powered by a shared sense of purpose and commitment to delivering excellence
- Curiosity - We’re humble learners with deep curiosity about the world, technology, and each other. We're active listeners and questioners, skilled at breaking down complex problems and making sense of them. We're unafraid to challenge the past and present, and are driven in the pursuit of truth and continuous improvement
- Transparency - Openness is at the core of everything we do. We disrupt knowledge silos and seek feedback early and often. We take pride in contributing our work to the open-source community and owning our role as educators
Company HQ
Pendleton, Cincinnati, OH
Articles
Leadership
Greg Neiheisel
(Co-founder)Software Engineer for Great American Insurance from 2011 to 2013. Experience as Founder and CTO of USERcycle.
Tim Brunk
(Co-founder)Co-founder of Cladwell since 2012 and of Ocean Accelerator since 2014. Founder of MetaRouter since 2018.
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